John
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John is the given name of John D. Hunter, the American scientist and software developer best known for creating the Matplotlib plotting library for Python.
All labels observed (1)
| Label | Occurrences |
|---|---|
| John canonical | 1 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T11744887 — resolving that mention is where its identity was fixed. The disambiguator weighed these candidate entities and picked the highlighted one (or “None”, minting a new entity). This is how homonymy is resolved: the same surface form can point to different entities.
Target entity: John Context triple: [John D. Hunter, givenName, John]
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John
John is the given first name of the legendary American professional golfer Byron Nelson, one of the sport’s early great champions.
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John
John is the first given name of English singer-songwriter Paul Weller, a key figure in the bands The Jam and The Style Council and a prominent solo artist.
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John
John is the given name of John Alexander Logan, a prominent 19th-century American Civil War general and influential politician.
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John
John is the given first name of Johnny Kilbane, an American featherweight boxing champion from the early 20th century.
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John
John Abizaid is a retired U.S. Army general who served as commander of United States Central Command and later as U.S. Ambassador to Saudi Arabia.
- F. None of above. chosen
- G. Unsure - the case is ambiguous/there is not enough information to decide.
Target entity: John Target entity description: John is the given name of John D. Hunter, the American scientist and software developer best known for creating the Matplotlib plotting library for Python.
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John
John is the given name of John McCarthy, the American computer scientist who coined the term "artificial intelligence" and was a pioneer in the field.
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John
John is the given name of John Hopfield, an American physicist and neuroscientist known for pioneering work on Hopfield networks in artificial intelligence.
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John
John is the given name of the renowned British mathematician John H. Conway, known for his work in group theory, number theory, and the invention of the Game of Life.
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John
John is the given name of the American mathematician John Tate, renowned for his foundational contributions to number theory and arithmetic geometry.
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John
John is the given name of John Perry Barlow, the American poet, essayist, and co-founder of the Electronic Frontier Foundation known for his advocacy of digital rights.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (48)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
human
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plotting library ⓘ software library ⓘ |
| academicDegree | PhD ⓘ |
| awardReceived | Python Software Foundation Community Service Award NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| causeOfDeath | complications from surgery ⓘ |
| contributedTo |
open-source software
ⓘ
scientific Python stack ⓘ |
| countryOfCitizenship | United States of America ⓘ |
| dateOfBirth | 1968-08-01 ⓘ |
| dateOfDeath | 2012-08-28 ⓘ |
| developerOf | Matplotlib NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| educatedAt |
Princeton University
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University of Chicago ⓘ |
| employer | University of Chicago ⓘ |
| familyName | Hunter NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| fieldOfStudy | neurobiology ⓘ |
| fieldOfWork |
computer science
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data visualization ⓘ open-source software development ⓘ scientific computing ⓘ |
| genre | data visualization software ⓘ |
| givenName | John NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| hasFeature |
MATLAB-like plotting interface
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publication-quality figures ⓘ support for multiple backends ⓘ |
| hasPart | Matplotlib documentation contributions ⓘ |
| influenced |
data visualization in Python
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scientific Python ecosystem ⓘ |
| inspiredBy |
MATLAB
NERFINISHED
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MATLAB plotting environment NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| knownFor | Matplotlib NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| languageSpoken | English ⓘ |
| memberOf | Python community NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| notableStudent | Matplotlib user community ⓘ |
| notableWork |
Matplotlib plotting library for Python
NERFINISHED
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integration of Matplotlib with NumPy ⓘ integration of Matplotlib with SciPy ⓘ |
| occupation |
scientist
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software developer ⓘ |
| partOf | scientific Python ecosystem ⓘ |
| placeOfBirth | United States of America ⓘ |
| programmingLanguage |
Python
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Python ⓘ |
| sexOrGender | male ⓘ |
| use |
2D plotting
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data visualization in Python ⓘ |
| workLocation | Chicago NERFINISHED ⓘ |
How these facts were elicited
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You are a knowledge base construction expert. Given a subject entity and a description of it, return factual statements that you know for the subject as a JSON list of dictionaries(triples), where keys must be "subject", "predicate" and "object". The number of facts may be very high, between 25 to 50 or more, for very popular subjects. For less popular subjects, the number of facts can be very low, like 5 or 10. # Requirements - If you don't know the subject at all, return an empty list. - If the subject is not a named entity, return an empty list. - Include at least one triple where predicate is "instanceOf". - Do not get too wordy. - Separate several objects into multiple triples with one object.
Subject: John Description of subject: John is the given name of John D. Hunter, the American scientist and software developer best known for creating the Matplotlib plotting library for Python.
Referenced by (1)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.